June 01, 2019

Saturday Morning

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Has anyone ever explained just what it is that Trump is doing to "shred the constitution"?
Other than objecting to being kicked in the head rather than the typical "please sir, may I have some more" of past Republicans, I mean.

GUS! I'm sorry I missed your comment last night, but that's great about the incoming UNL frosh. Tell him to take my English 231 this fall if he needs a gen ed humanities credit, as mine is a) great and b) sane amidst a howling wilderness of nonsense in the humanities curriculum. Also, in the last week of July and first of August (roughly) I'll be in St. Pete and have plans to get together with Jane in Port Charlotte and Jack with Capt. Eric, so if you are headed that way, perhaps we can get that meet-up your brush with death postponed.

narciso, I don't know how far in you are in Barchester Towers but I hope you find the many points at which the Archdeacon loses his temper and the trashing of Mrs. Proudie's soiree to be comic high points. And everything related to the odious Slope. In the BBC version, his sermon on how music in churches corrupts is set to Ravel's Bolero (and Snape plays Slope), so that's particularly delicious.

Trump is the only recent President seemingly guided by the Constitution.

Similar to Iggy's question, what exactly did Trump obstruct? I can't read the loon prosecutor because he's of the retarded police state mindset which thinks everyone is guilty of something and only because of the benevolence of apparatchiks like him that any of us aren't living in penal colonies.

After spending a few minutes there the evening some of us went over to bust his balls, I found Patterico's attitude kind of frightening coming from a person who really does have power over people who are presumed innocent and might actually be. The horse thief hanging thing from TWIP really nailed his thinking.

Jane, Jonah and his wife have both gone off the rails so far that family gatherings are almost abandoned. Our pals host retreats at their Kona coffee farm and it’s like Thanksgiving dinner for a week at a time.

Buckeye, are you gonna be able to make it to CREEKSIDE BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL on Trump’s birthday? Got the announcement from our pals at Genesis Audio.

Parts of this cabal, ring like outtakes from blindSpot this crazy action policier where the villain this season was actually allowed to win, in part because of a deep state weasel with his own agenda, also they wrote an ending that covered if they were cancelled, the blacklist had an almost similar track with mostly a happy ending well Remington was left stabbed on a cold Zurich street but otherwise.

Spoke to Virginia Governor @RalphNortham last night, and the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Virginia Beach this morning, to offer condolences to that great community. The Federal Government is there, and will be, for whatever they may need. God bless the families and all!

Imagine being @DanCrenshawTX, a Navy Seal & war hero who lost an eye & almost his life fighting against terrorism only to return home to face DOMESTIC TERRORISTS who hate him & call him horrible names on a daily basis.

It is the lamest of all lame excuses for anyone to blame Mueller's subordinates for anything that's in the "Mueller Report." Just ridiculous.

You and I have a different concept of blame. Yesterday we learned whoever transcribed the voicemail from Dowd to Flynn’s lawyer intentionally left out some exculpatory evidence. Yesterday several people said that they didn’t think Mueller himself wrote the report and MJW even went so far as to agree with me that it was Weissman who wrote the Part 2 OOJ section. If you want to accurately accuse the right person for omitting the exculpatory evidence you blame Weissman or maybe Dreeben for that. You don’t blame Mueller for it unless you have some form of proof that he told Weissman to omit that exculpatory evidence. You can blame Mueller for not providing oversight of his staff’s actions and signing his name to a report with major legal faults in it but the primary blame for being corrupt and dishonest and omitting the exculpatory evidence is squarely on Weissman’s shoulders.

What I would also like to know is when whoever in the DOJ provided the full transcript of Dowd’s voicemail to Flynn’s judge, did they already know beforehand that Weissman omitted the exculpatory evidence or did it take a Twitter Sleuth to discover it? I’d like to think some unknown White Hat in the DOJ knew what they were doing and were wanting to expose Weissman’s unethical action.

1. Did no one question his appointment given his past record of unethical behavior?

Although this is strictly a DOJ matter, the GOP always gets smoked on situations like this, like Jamie Gorelick being on the 9/11 Commission instead of being in front of it. If the parties were reversed the donks would be screaming loud and long. Granted the MFM runs interference for them but there are enough Repubs like Graham with high exposure to address this.

It's possible Trump has told party members "don't sweat it because my guys got this".

There's another twist with gorelick, she then flipped to represent a Saudi prince in a 9/11 civil suit, thr head of the Islamic shamal bank. Of course the esteemed governor Kean was a board member with another player on the amoco board.

Further to anonamom's comment about mice as disease carriers, earlier today (which is where I am on playing catch-up):

If you discover a mouse nest (which alas, I occasionally come across among the accumulated objets in my basement warehouse), do not attempt to clean it up until you have put on some disposable gloves and a dust musk! Throw the gloves away with the nest and tie off the bag. You should also wear a dust mask if you have to do anything in the crawl space of an older house.

BTW, my next door neighbor is a Psychiatrist (I never mention my issues), who had a very serious car accident 20 years ago and has as much metal holding his partially artificial spinal column together.

He proudly told me of some pain management therapy that has allowed him to wean off the fentanyl from 150mg/day to 125mg/day.

--When I was 17 and living in Brooklyn with my aunt, my uncle Stan, who was African American and had a car service took me to meet one of his clients, a guy named Eubie Blake...He had the longest fingers I had ever seen. -

matt,
The two things I remember most about Eubie Blake were his ET fingers and the fact he was reluctant to say the word jazz because it had become a euphemism for sex, preferring ragtime instead.

Clarice, Peggy Noonan must be on a bender. She think Mueller chickened out in the press conference and his report, that part II nails Trump for obstructing justice. TDS requires something be done, since Pelosi wants to ride possible impeachment through November 2020 the only thing left is a censure.

I may need something stronger than beer to wash that stupidity out of my brain.

There is a principled and reasonable, though mostly wrong, case to be made as criticism of Trump, just as there have always been disagreements within the camps of sane libertarians and conservatives.
The problem with Goldberg and the rest of the nevertrumpers is their arguments are neither principled nor reasonable. Part of it is the nevertrumpers' abysmal historical ignorance which seems to think their largely neocon vision is the only one that has ever existed or deserves to exist.
Most of Trump's conservative position predate neoconservatism altogether. In fact they abandon conservative philosophical principles, which have always had a strong utilitarian strain in them, and take on the form of a proto-ideology when they act as though conservatism is some rigid immutable dogma.
But their most progressive-like tendency is the personal-is-political aspect of 'if you're not for us in every aspect you're against us and it's either you or us' mentality.
The sad thing is not only are they wrong on most of their criticism of Trump they're wrong on most of their understanding of conservatism. In fact I would say their basic ignorance of the various strands of conservatism or indifference or hostility to them is more at the root of their problems with Trump than the cultural or manners or breeding or all the rest of the snooty snobby end of things, though that too exists.

Just saw a note on Bloomie's site that said that daddy's old shop was hauling some Huawei documents from Japan to China and they mysteriously made a detour back here on the way. Hmmm. Now the Chinks are pissed and want to ban Fred from doing business there.

Chi­na’s Com­merce Min­istry an­nounced Fri­day that it is set­ting up an “un­re­li­able en­tity list”—a black­list of for­eign com­pa­nies, or­ga­ni­za­tions and in­di­vid­u­als that break con­tracts, harm Chi­nese com­pa­nies for non-com­mer­cial rea­sons or dam­age na­tional se­cu­rity in­ter­ests. De­tails of the tar­gets or the con­se­quences of be­ing listed were not re­leased.

On a separate note, we have recently been watching Lilyhammer and really enjoying it. Had no clue who Little Stevie Van Zandt was and therefore didn't realize he was producing the music for it along with some other production credits. Never watched Sopranos and was never much of a Bruce fan, so now I'm intrigued about two albums he is producing, one Jazz and one mixed folk and other stuff done for the show (apparently).

One other fun side note, on about the 3rd episode, they had some Norsk hippie blocking a project Frankie has a side interest in. Turns out he lives over in Ringsaker, which happens to be in the middle of nowhere and also the ancestral home and birthplace of my paternal grandmother.

Well, we are back from Home Depot with appropriate materials. I had to navigate 2 roundabouts on the way home which I thoroughly detest, as I grew up in the 4-Way stop era, and I do not think they save very much time.

Saw a fridge like the one I had at my old house but stainless steel. Home Depot price was $3200!! Yikes!

I am now home and will spend some time here, as I don't want to do any more laundry.

Dems won some special elections. They took MI and WI governorships and some other stuff. I don't think you can assume 2020 will be a lock.
Still, Trump's base is only getting more solid afaict. Congressional Repubs will need to be supportive or very very discreet.

We know it’s a fact that from the very start Mueller knew he could not indict Trump for OOJ due to DOJ policy.

Knowing that to be a fact, McCabe legally should have never started an OOJ investigation into Trump in the first place since it was impossible for it to normally proceed to a grand jury for indictment.

From a legal standpoint Rosenstein could have nipped in the bud as soon as he discovered what McCabe was trying to do (silent coup). The problem is following the legal route allows the Democrats to easily adopt the “stopping McCabe’s investigation is a cover up because Trump knows he is guilty of Russian collusion” misinformation campaign. That is why Trump and Rosenstein had to come up with a political solution, not a legal solution, to counter the silent coup. The political solution was to appoint Mueller SC and neuter McCabe.